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SCHOOL-CHILDREN THE 
WORLD OVER 



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Children leaving a Village Schrjol at Cappel, Germany 

From Stereograph, copyright, 190S, by Vndenvood Isf Underwood, A'eiL' York 



SCHOOL-CHILDREN 
THE WORLD OVER 

WITH STORIES AND DESCRIPTIONS 

By LUCY DUNTON 



WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS FROM COPYRIGHTED 
STEREOGRAPHS BY UNDERWOOD ^5 UNDERWOOD, 
NEW YORK, PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT 




JVEIJ^ YORK . FREDERICK A. 
STOKES COMPANY • PUBLISHERS 



Copyright, 1909, by 
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY 



September, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



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A VILLAGE SCHOOL AT CAPPEL, GERMANY 

A GIRLS' SCHOOL IN PALESTINE 

FULL-BLOODED MAORI GIRLS AT A SEMINARY 

"SETTING-UP EXERCISES" IN A MAORI BOYS' SCHOOL ... 14 

GIRLS' TRAINING SCHOOL, AMERICAN MISSION, ASSIUT, EGYPT . 16 

CHILDREN OF CENTRAL AFRICA 

SCHOOL-CHILDREN AT MATANZAS, CUBA .... 

A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN PORTO RICO 

A PARSEE SCHOOLMASTER AND HIS CLASS OF BOYS ... 24 
STATE SCHOOL AT KAROIT, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA . . . c6 

SCHOOL-TEACHER AND CHILDREN AT LA PAROUSE, AUSTRALIA 28 
JAPANESE BOYS PLAYING MARBLES AFTER SCHOOL ... 30 

A JAPANESE PLAYGROUND 

AN UP-TO-DATE SCHOOL AT RECHT, PERSIA .... 
A NATIONAL SCHOOL IN CENTRAL IRELAND .... 
SCHOOL-GIRLS AT HONOLULU, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS . 
SKIPPING ROPE IN SCHOOL-YARD, BARRANQUILLA, COLOMBIA 
SCHOOL IN CEYLON, SHOWING PUPILS AND TEACHER . 
JAPANESE SCHOOL-GIRLS GOING TO A CHERRY FESTRAL 
CHINESE GIRLS AT THE McTYEIRE MISSION SCHOOL . 
N.\TIVE SCHOOL AT SALTILLO, MEXICO .... 
A DISTRICT SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND .... 
SCHOOL-BOYS DRILLING IN BELEM, SPAIN 

AMERICAN INDIANS, MOKI COUNTRY 

SCHOLARS AT RECREATION, FILANTROPICA, ECUADOR . 
THE JESUIT SCHOOL OF SALEMI, SICILY .... 



CONTENTS 

THE ROYAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL, PALERMO, SICH.Y 

JAMAICA PICKANINNIES GOING TO SCHOOL 

MUNICIPAL SCHOOL AT MANILA .... 

SCHOOL-CHILDREN AT LAMPOUL, FRANCE 

CHILDREN OF THE AVE MARIA CHARITY SCHOOL 

A HIGH SCHOOL, JON KOPING, SWEDEN 

AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL— A LESSON IN PENMANSHIP 

LONDON DAY SCHOOL— A CHEMISTRY CLASS . 

A LONDON DAY SCHOOL— IN THE PLAYGROUND 

AN AMERICAN MISSION SCHOOL IN EGYPT 



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A VILLAGE SCHOOL AT 
CAPPEL, GERMANY 

GERMANY has always been a country of education. 
Its universities are among the very finest in the world, 
and its lower schools, which are called gymnasia, are 
excellent. This is, of course, only a tiny village school, but 
you can see that even these little children have a studious 
look in their eyes, as it they had just come from a place where 
they studied very hard. 

Each one of these boys, when he becomes twenty years 
old, will have to be a soldier and serve in the army for seven 
years, unless he has shown himself so very brilliant that he is 
allowed to go on with his studies for a special purpose. Some 
of them, to escape the service in the army, will perhaps leave 
Germany and live elsewhere, but most of them will stay and 
be soldiers. 

The girls will doubtless be taught how to spin and weave 
and to keep house, for every German girl learns to be a good 
housekeeper before she learns much else. 

There is in Germany a great forest that covers miles and 
miles of land; it is called the Black Forest, and there are 
many stories written about it. In one part of it there is a 
small village where all the children, as well as the grown-ups, 
make dolls — all sorts and sizes of dolls, to be sent over all the 
world. And the strange thing is that no one of the girls 
there ever has a doll of her own to play with ! It must be 
rather hard for them, don't you think, to see so many dolls 
going away while they have none.? 

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A GIRLS' SCHOOL IN PALESTINE 

HERE is a school of girls in Palestine, which is called 
the Holy Land, because Christ was born and lived 
there. But these girls would never have known any- 
thing about Christ, or many other things that it is good to 
know, if the missionaries had not started schools like this. 
That is because girls are not thought much of in Palestine, 
and nobody troubles to teach them, unless, perhaps, their 
parents are wealthy and of importance. Their brothers go 
to school, but they stay at home and work, and take care of 
the baby. 

Even in this school, some of the girls have to bring the 
babies, or else they couldn't come themselves. Most of these 
girls, I think, look as if they would learn quickly whatever 
they were taught. And they probably do know, already, 
a little English, and how to read and write. They learn also 
cooking, sewing, and how to help keep their own homes clean, 
which is fortunate, because the homes probably need it badly. 

These girls belong to poor families, and live in very small 
houses. When they are not at school they help their moth- 
ers, while their fathers go out to the fields to tend flocks of 
sheep or herds of goats. 

Many, many years ago, when Christ lived there, most of 
the people in Palestine were Jews; but now the poorer people 
are almost all Syrians or Arabs, and these girls probably all 
belong to one of those two races. Both Syrians and Arabs 
are, in a way, second cousins to the Jews. 

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A Girls' School at Es Sa/i in Palestine 

From Stereograph, copyright, 1907, by Underwood isf Underwood, New York 



FULL-BLOODED MAORI GIRLS 

AT A SEMINARY, PARNELL, 

NEW ZEALAND 

IF you put your thumb or finger over the faces of some of 
these girls, you will see that they look very like the girls 

that go to your own school. But, take away your finger, 
now, and put your hand over all but their heads. How 
different they are from the girls you know ! Well, their 
faces are different because these girls live on a great, far-away 
island, called New Zealand, and belong to a tribe of people 
called Maoris, who owned that island before the English 
people went there to live. 

When the English went there they began to teach these 
Maoris to wear the same sort of clothes they wore, instead 
of the skins of wild animals which the Maoris used to use. 

Then the English built schools for them, like this one, 
and Mission churches. The Maori girls are bright and quick 
to learn, and some of them, as you see here, are very pretty. 
It seems a wonderful thing to them all to learn to read and 
write; for probably many of these girls have parents who 
cannot spell their own names. 

All the Maori tribe live on the islands in the Pacific 
Ocean, and have brown skins — some fairly light brown — 
and generally straight hair. They are very different from the 
Negroes, who live in Africa, and are much darker-skinned 
and have hair like wool. 

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Full-blooded Maori Girls at a Seminary, Paniell, New Zealand 

From Stereograph, copyright, 190S, by Underifood isf Undenvood, New York 



THE "SETTING-UP EXERCISES" 
IN A MAORI BOYS' SCHOOL 

YOU know how it is when you feel all wriggley and 
squirmy in school? Then the teacher says, "All 
stand ! " and you get up and go through some exercises 
that make you feel all right again, and ready for more work. 
Well, that is what these boys are doing. Only, they have 
their exercises in the open air — which, of course, is best, 
when it is possible. 

These boys live in New Zealand, too, and belong to the 
tribe of Maoris, just as the girls in the picture before this. 
The boys and men of this tribe are almost always tall and 
strong and well-built. They live out of doors a great deal, 
and are very fond of outdoor games and sports. 

The schools in New Zealand are very fine, and the 
boys and girls study much the same lessons as you do. 
That is because the English people have built these schools 
for them. But you will think it a queer place, in one way, 
when I tell you that while countries like America and Eng- 
land are having winter, with lots of snow and skating and 
coasting, these boys are going barefoot and finding it pretty 
hot weather even to play ball in, for it is then summer in their 
country. And when it is June in these northern countries, 
it is cold and wintry there, though they don't have even 
enough snow and ice to coast and skate; only terrible storms 
and long, long days of rain. 




Si.'tting-up Ext-rc/st's" in School for Maori Boys, outside Auckland, 
New Zealatid 



From Stereograph, copyright, 190S, by Underwood isf U/iderwood, Neiu York 



LITTLE GIRLS' TRAINING 

SCHOOL, AMERICAN MISSION, 

ASSIUT, EGYPT 

HERE is another school on a roof-top — much the same 
sort of roof as the one where the Egyptian boys are 
studying. For this school, also, is in Egypt, in 
another town near the Nile, called Assiut. It is a school for 
girls, which was an unheard-of thing before these Mission 
schools were started. 

These queer, square, flat-topped houses are made of 
plastered mud or of sun-dried bricks, and this part of Assiut 
does not look very attractive. But the whole town is in a 
beautiful place, and as you travel toward it, you might think 
it was a fairy city, it has so many tall, graceful towers and 
spires. These are on its churches, and are called minarets, 
while the churches themselves are called mosques. 

When you go into Assiut, however, and see it close to, it 
isn't at all a pleasant place, for the streets are not clean, and 
the people, especially the children, are ill-kept and badly 
fed. At this school the little girls are learning to take better 
care of themselves, as well as to read and write. 

But there is one beautiful thing that is made in Assiut — 
a kind of pottery, that is, bowls, pitchers and vases, of a dull 
red, with designs in black. Some of these are sent away, 
all over the world, but the people keep and sell the best in 
their own town. 

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Little Girls Ti'aining School, A/iicritiui Mission, ^ is suit, Egypt 

From Stereograph, copyright by Vnder'ivood ^ Underwood, Neiu Tori 



CHILDREN OF CENTRAL AFRICA 

THESE faces are none of them very bright or attractive, 
are they ? Well, possibly a few of these boys and 
girls are rather brighter than they look, and many of 
them are learning, in this Mission school, to become at least 
a little less unattractive than they were. 

These boys and girls — and the men with them, who are 
teachers — live in Central Africa, in a part of the country 
called the Congo Free State — almost on the equator. You 
will think they look very much like negroes, which isn't 
strange, because that is exactly what they are; for the ances- 
tors of the negroes in America were brought as slaves, years 
ago, from this same country. 

You have heard of savages? These Africans were all 
savages before the white people went there as missionaries. 
But now they are learning to live a little better, and you can 
see some of them holding books in their hands. No doubt 
some of the older ones can read them, and the little ones are 
going to do so too, as they grow up. 

The great brick building behind them was built, as you 
will probably guess, by the missionaries. For, of course, these 
people wouldn't know how to build such a house as that. 
Their own houses are dark little huts, made of a kind of 
stiff grass and without any floors or windows — just one door 
to go in and out by. Their chief, or king, thinks his house 
very fine because it is made, not of grass, but of palm-leaves 
and has a fence around it, made of reeds ! 

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SCHOOL-CHILDREN AT MATAN- 
ZAS, CUBA 

THIS doesn't look as if they had very good school-houses 
in Cuba, does it? Well, they have not; — for very 
little boys and girls. The schools for bigger boys and 
girls — especially the boys — are much better, but little folk 
like these have to go to school where they can. 

Most of them are taught by the Sisters, who belong to 
the convents, and they don't really study very hard. You see 
it is very warm on the island of Cuba, most of the year, 
because it is so far south and so the people take things pretty 
easily. None of them care very much for studying and the 
Cuban girls would rather do the housework at home than 
learn to read and write. 

Like Colombia, Cuba used to belong to Spain, and the 
Spaniards gave it the beautiful name of the "Pearl of the 
Antilles." It was governed by the United States for several 
years, though the Cubans now govern themselves. 

Cuban children have a happy time, generally, for they 
are greatly loved and petted at home. But they are good- 
mannered children and are not often spoiled by being made 
much of. One thing that is rather cruel the Cuban children 
are verv fond of, and that is making game-cocks light. Even 
the poorest people try to have some of these birds. Cuban 
children love to fly kites, and they have a game in which 
pieces of glass are tied to the kite-tails and each player tries 
to make his kite cut the string of another. 

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From Stereograph, copyright, 1907, by Underwood is Underwood, New York 



A PUBLIC SCHOOL IN 
PORTO RICO 

THIS school is in Porto Rico, which is an island not far 
from Cuba and belongs to the same group of islands, 
called the West Indies. But this school-house looks 
much better than that one in Cuba. That is partly because 
the Americans have helped the Porto Ricans to have better 
schools, and partly because they themselves really want their 
schools to be better, while the Cubans do not care. 

When the girls in Porto Rico are old enough, many of 
them go to the United States, to learn how to teach. Then 
they go back home and help the others. Perhaps the two 
teachers in the window have been to America. But even if 
they have been, and have learned to speak English there, 
they will probably teach these children in Spanish, for that 
is the language the Porto Ricans all speak, though some of 
them may have picked up a little English from the Ameri- 
cans living on the island. 

Porto Rico is a very beautiful island, but it is difficult to 
travel upon it, because there are high hills and the roads are 
badly kept. There are a great many rivers on it, too, but 
as there are very few bridges across them, even traveling on 
horseback is not easy. Still, the Americans are helping to 
improve the roads and to build bridges, so that it will be 
easier to go from place to place. And this will be good not 
only for the grown-ups, but for the children as well, especially 
when they have far to go to school. 

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A PARSER SCHOOLMASTER AND 
HIS CLASS OF BOYS 

THIS odd-looking old schoolmaster belongs to a relig- 
ious body of people who live in India, or in nearby 
lands. They are called Parsees, which is almost the 
same word as Persia, because their religion is that of an an- 
cient Persian named Zoroaster. 

This Parsee schoolmaster will teach his boys a great 
many things that would seem very strange to us. For in- 
stance, they can not ever eat any food that is cooked by a 
person ot another religion than theirs. Then, when they 
grow up they are not allowed to marry anyone that is not a 
Parsee. Some of these boys, perhaps, will not marry at all, 
but will become Parsee priests, and help to keep alive the 
fire on the temple altars, for that fire must never go out. 

The island of Uran, where these boys are, is close to 
Bombay, which is one of the two largest cities of India; the 
other being Calcutta. Those ships have probably been into 
the harbor of Bombay, carrying cargoes from other ports; 
or perhaps they are going to carry away some of the cotton 
cloth that the people of Bombay send to other countries. 
Cotton cloth is made in large quantities in this part of India, 
and the whole country has always been famous for its many 
kinds of fabric. Silks of very beautiful colors and wonder- 
fully soft, embroideries, and all sorts of needle-work are 
found in all the better shops and bazars, which are generally 
open booths without doors or windows. 

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A Parsee Schoolmaster and his CJass, Ishnul of Uran, near Bombay, India 

From Stereograph, eopyrii^/it by Vndenvood l3 Lndencooii, Aeu' } ork 



STATE SCHOOL AT KOROIT, 
VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA 

YOU remember those schools of girls and boys in New 
Zealand? Well, Australia is a very large island near 
New Zealand, so large that it is called an island con- 
tinent. And it, also, is a colony of England. But the peo- 
ple there are not like the New Zealanders or Maoris. Some 
of them are more like negroes — dark and wooly-haired — 
while others are quite fair-skinned. 

Many, perhaps most, ot these children are not really 
Australians, at all, but Englishj because so many English 
people go to Australia to live. And especially to Victoria, 
for that is where, a number of years ago, so much gold was 
found that people hurried there in crowds, hoping to make 
their fortunes in mining. 

But all the people in Australia are not gold-hunters. 
Perhaps the fathers of some of these children are sheep- 
raisers, and own great flocks of sheep, so that they may send 
the wool to England or to Scotland j for before the gold was 
found in Victoria, most of the people raised sheep to make 
their living from the wool. 

When these boys and girls have grown a little older, 
they will probably be sent to England, to go to other schools 
there, because their fathers and mothers always think of 
England as their real home. 

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A Modern School-house at Koroit, Victoria, Australia, showing a Teacher 
and the School-children 



From Stereograph, copyright, 1909, hy Vnderu'ood of Underwood, New York 



A SCHOOL-HOUSE, SCHOOL- 
TEACHER AND CHILDREN 
AT LA PAROUSE, 
AUSTRALIA 

THE schools in Victoria are very much the same sort 
that you go to, and the children have to go to them 
regularly, just as you do. But in other parts of 
Australia the people are not so careful about sending their 
boys and girls to school, and so they don't learn nearly so 
much, nor have such good schools to go to. 

Here is one that is not in Victoria. You can plainly 
see that everything about it is different from the last one we 
saw, except the teacher, who is doubtless an Englishman, 
like the other. 

These boys and girls belong to poorer families, and a few 
of them are full-blooded Australians. They are an ill-kept, 
unattractive crowd, aren't they.? Their fathers, probably, 
take care of the flocks of sheep, or work hard in the fields 
of wheat, or in the mines. 

The cities of Australia are full of modern, English- 
looking buildings, because they have been built up largely by 
the people who have come from England; and Melbourne, 
the capital of Australia, has no less than five beautiful parks 
in it. But if you should go out into the country, you would 
see some strange animals, such as you may only see in the 
Zoo, at home. 

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The Teacher, Pupils and School-house at La Parouse, Australia 

From Sh-reogmfh, lOpyriv/it, 1909, by Vndenvood fif Vr.dcnvood, Netv York 



JAPANESE BOYS PLAYING MAR- 
BLES AFTER SCHOOL 

THESE Japanese boys have been to school and now, on 
their way home, are stopping, just like other boys, 
the world over, to play marbles in the street. For 
boys in Japan love dearly to play, and even taking care ot 
baby brother or sister does not keep them from joining in 
the game. If it did, many of them could not play at all, 
for the back of a Japanese boy or girl is thought to be the 
very best place for the baby of the family; and so, there he 
is fastened securely every morning, and stays most of the day, 
even taking his nap there, in perfect content and comfort. 

Japanese children are all very polite, and if you were to 
stand near by for a long time and watch the boys playing, you 
would not see any of them quarreling, for they are peaceable 
little people, and hardly ever think of fighting. When they 
grow up, however, they make the best sort of soldiers, and 
fight, then, for their country, as hard as you could wish. 

As for school, they love it nearly as much as a good 
game of marbles. There is never any need of urging them 
to go. But when a holiday comes along, I think they are 
almost happier than English or American boys, because even 
the grown-ups in Japan know how to enjoy playtime rather 
better than in most places. And they join the children in 
having a good time in the streets or out in the fields. In the 
latter they have many beautiful flower festivals, most of 
which are part of their religion. 

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JiipiJiicsi' Boys p/iiyiiig Marbles after School 
From Stereograp/i, copyright, 1907, by Underwood ^ Vnderivood, Nnv York 



A JAPANESE PLAYGROUND 

HERE are more Japanese boys, and some girls, too, 
playing together: — probably on the school play- 
ground. The children ot Japan wear rather queer 
and awkward footgear ;— llat straw sandals held on by a band 
passing between the big toe and the next one. And some- 
times they wear thick, wooden clogs, fastened in the same 
way. English and American children would find it very diffi- 
cult to move about in these, but the Japanese children are 
used to them, and manage to romp and run very easily in 
them. When the people go inside of a house they slip them 
ofF and leave them on the porch, walking about the house 
in their stockings. 

The little boys dress almost exactly like their fathers, and 
the girls like their mothers, except that a little girl may wear 
much brighter colors than older folk, and have gay flowers 
and birds printed or embroidered on her kimono. 

Most of their games are very different from ours, and 
they are great little people for games. They all love to 
play together, and the older children take excellent care of 
the little ones, to whom they are always thoughtful and 
kind. 

Some of these boys, when they are older, will learn how 
to wrestle in that wonderful way that only the Japanese know. 
It is called jiu jitsu, and unless you happen to have learned 
it, also, one of these small men could throw you, almost in 
an instant, even if you were twice his size. 

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AN UP-TO-DATE SCHOOL AT 
RECHT, PERSIA 

PERSIA, like Egypt and China and Palestine, is one of 
the very old countries of the world. For thousands 
of years it has had schools and its people have studied 
and have taught their boys to study — but not their girls, for 
in Persia, as in many Eastern countries, they do not like to 
have girls and w^omen know much. 

This school has small boys and large ones in it, and the 
very smallest is dressed exactly like the grown men. That 
is a school uniform, to be sure, but even outside of schools, 
in Persia, the children dress just like the grown-ups as soon 
as they can walk. And most of them act like little men 
and women, too. 

But the people of Persia do not all study in books. 
Many of them make beautiful things with their hands, weav- 
ing wonderful colors and patterns into rugs and shawls, and 
embroidering on silks, so that nowhere else in the world will 
you find such rugs or such shawls, and only in China or 
Japan can you get as wonderful embroideries. 

Every one in Persia loves flowers and nearly every house 
has a garden. Sometimes it is nothing but a tangle of flow- 
ers and not at all well-kept, but still it is a garden. And if 
it is not well-kept, it is merely like all the rest of Persia; 
for though Persia was once a powerful country, it has gradu- 
ally lost its power and its greatness, until now it amounts to 
very little among the nations of the world. 

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A NATIONAL SCHOOL IN 
CENTRAL IRELAND 

HERE are some children in a village school in Ireland. 
That is nearer home, isn't it? And they look much 
more familiar than some of the other children we 
have been looking at. These children's fathers are farmers 
and laborers and, since being a farmer in Ireland means a 
deal of hard work, many of these boys and girls have to help 
in the fields before they go to school and after school is 
out. Or, perhaps some have to drive the cows or tend the 
goats, while others mind the babies at home. 

The teachers in these schools have not had very much 
chance to learn, themselves. Still, they can teach the chil- 
dren how to read and write, and the little girls all learn 
from them how to sew and knit. 

The land in Ireland is not very good farm-land, and 
some of the farmers can barely make a living off it. That 
is why so many of them leave Ireland for America. Most 
of these boys and girls, as soon as they are old enough, will 
say good-by to their homes and join their friends in the 
United States, for they all think it a wonderful country to 
become rich in. While they are still boys and girls, how- 
ever, they will stay at home, contentedly, for they are a 
very happy lot, and have much fun among themselves. 
They do not have many playthings like the children of some 
other lands, but have to find amusement in simple games and 
plays. This does not make them less cheerful however. 

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A National School at Ballidian, Ireland 

From Stereograph, copyright by Underwood isf Underwood, New York 



SCHOOL-GIRLS AT HONOLULU, 
HAWAHAN ISLANDS 

THESE girls live on an island away over in the Pacific 
Ocean, thousands of miles west of San Francisco, 
which is as far west as you can go and still be in 
the United States. Yet this island, and several others, close 
to it, belong to the United States, though they are called by 
their old name, the Hawaiian Islands. 

So many people from all over the world have come there 
at different times, to stay and do business there, that now 
most of the people are either English or American, or Ger- 
man or French, or of any other nation than that which really 
belongs in those islands. 

That is why these girls differ so, one from the other. 
Some of them, to be sure, are real Hawaiians, but most of 
them are children of people who have come from other 
countries. These people live in Honolulu, where this school" 
is. They raise sugar-cane, perhaps, or coffee, or rice, or 
own flocks of sheep and sell their wool to England. 

Still, their girls go to the same school, which is very like 
the schools that American girls go to. They all speak Eng- 
lish and, if you should ever go to that far-away island, you 
would find the little girls ready to play just whatever game 
you might ask for. The native girls of these islands, as well 
as the men and boys, are fine looking and have gentle man- 
ners. They are not at all like some of the other races who 
have dark skins. 

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Soi:ie Schoola^irls at Hoiiohilu, Iia\caiia)i Islands 

From Stereograph, copyright, 1907, by I'nderiL'ood If I udenimd, Xew York 



SKIPPING ROPE IN THE 

SCHOOL- YARD, BARRANQUILLA, 

COLOMBIA 

THESE children live down in South America, but they 
know how to skip rope, and enjoy it as much as any 
of you, I'm sure. Colombia, where this school is, 
was one of the places that Columbus found when he came 
sailing over this way from Spain. That is why it was called 
Colombia. And for a long time after that the Spaniards 
owned it as a colony, so that, even now, though it is a 
republic, like the United States, there are many Spaniards 
living there. 

This school, like many others in Colombia, is kept by 
the nuns of the Roman Catholic Church, for most of the 
people there are Catholics. 

If you will look on the map of South America you will 
see that one country next to Colombia is Panama. There 
the United States Government is building a great canal for 
ships to go through. When this is made, the ships can pass 
straight through from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, 
instead of going away around South America. 

Colombia is what is called a tropical country; that is, it 
is very near the equator, and has queer wild animals, and 
beautiful, brilliant flowers and birds. Outside the cities it is 
difficult to keep telegraph wires in order, because the monkeys 
use them in their gymnastic exercises! 

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Skipping Rope in the School-yard, Barranquilla, Colombia 

From Stereograph, copyright, 190S, by Undenvood Is Undenvood, Wew York 



SCHOOL IN CEYLON, SHOWING 

PUPILS, TEACHERS, AND 

SCHOOL-HOUSE 

THIS is a village school in Ceylon, which is a large 
island in the Indian Ocean, just east of India. It is a 
strange-looking school-house, to be sure, yet there are 
several hundred others like it in this island. 

Ceylon is one of the colonies of England, and so these 
people have learned from the English what a good thing it 
is to teach their children to read and to write. And though 
this school-house was built by the natives, there probably 
would have been no school — and certainly no girls in it — if 
it were not for the English governor of the island. 

One strange thing about this house is that almost every 
part of it is made out of one sort of tree — every part, that is, 
except the low, plastered sides. And it is shaded, too, by 
the same trees, those tall cocoa-nut palms around it. The 
posts are made, of course, from the trunk of the palm, and 
the roof is covered, or " thatched," with palm leaves, all 
twisted and woven together. Even the strip of matting laid 
over the joints is made of the braided fibre of the leaves. 
And then, by way of decoration, they have put a great palm 
leaf flat down on the front of the roof. They even make 
their fences, like the one at the right of the house, out of 
the stalks of the leaves. There isn't much they don't get from 
these trees, from food and plates to canoes and houses. 

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The Pupils, Teacher and Schrjol-house of a School in Ceylon 

From Stereograph, copyright by Underwood i^ Underwood, New York 



JAPANESE SCHOOL-GIRLS GOING 
TO A CHERRY FESTIVAL 

JAPANESE girls are quite as eager and ready as Japan- 
ese boys for a holiday, and these little school-girls are 
going to have one of the happiest holidays in their whole 
year. They are on their way to a Cherry-Blossom Festival. 
At the time of the cherry blossoms, all Japan is fairly pink 
with them, and the gardens and the country places look as 
if a fine pink snow had fallen upon their trees. The Japan- 
ese people are great lovers of flowers and so every year they 
have special festivals for different kinds of flowers. 

These girls belong, doubtless, to some Mission school, 
for, as you can see, they have tried to dress themselves in 
the kind of clothes you wear, though they have made rather 
a failure of it. The men, who are Japanese too, are all 
wearing European clothes. See how different they and the 
school-girls look from the men and girls in the back of the 
picture. 

The house on the hill is the home of a Japanese Prince. 
It is more like a European house than houses in Japan usu- 
ally are, for it is made of stone while the others are of some 
kind of wood, most often of bamboo. They do not like to 
build a house that will last very long, because it is an old 
custom in Japan for the whole family to move out and desert 
their home when the master of the house has died. This 
seems a verv strange custom, does it not ? It certainly would 
be hard for us to follow in America. 

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Children going to a Che?-ry Festival, near Tokyo, Japan 

From Stereograph, copyright by Lhidenvood iff Undenvood, New York 



CHINESE GIRLS AT THE Mc- 
TYEIRE MISSION SCHOOL 

WHAT a strange combination this seems to be, this 
group of Chinese girls playing croquet, with that 
modern, English-looking church behind them. 
But this is Shanghai, China, a city that is full of such mix- 
tures as this, because more than one-half of the people living 
there have come from other countries, all over the world. 
Even the high walls that enclose the city have not kept out 
these people, for Shanghai is on the sea, and many ships 
come to it from far-away places. 

This is the playground of a Mission School, which is the 
only sort of school that Chinese girls can go to, to really 
learn very much. At home, if they learn to sew and to 
embroider beautifully, and to cook well, that is all they need 
to know, except to be modest and gentle and polite. But 
at this school they learn more than that and, what is better 
perhaps than anything else, they learn to enjoy outdoor 
games. At home they are not expected to care about play- 
ing out of doors or running about. You can see that by the 
kind of clothes they wear. 

Until very lately the feet of all the little girls in China 
were kept bound so tight that they were crushed all out of 
shape, and hurt dreadfully, just because girls were supposed 
to look prettier with very small feet. But nowadays many 
of them do not have to have their feet bound ; and of course 
they are much happier and healthier than formerly. 

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Chinese Girls at the McTyeire Alission School, Shanghai, China 

From Stereograph, copyright by Undenvood is' Undenvood, Neiv York 



NATIVE SCHOOL AT SALTILLO, 

MEXICO 

MANY, many years ago, when the Spaniards wan- 
dered away from the West India Islands, to see if 
any other lands were near-by and, if so, what sort 
of people lived in them, they came upon Mexico. And 
there they settled and stayed for a long time, making 
Mexico another of their colonies, because they found mines 
there, rich in gold and silver. 

The people they found there were called Aztecs, and 
were probably akin to the American Indian, yet much more 
civilized than the tribes farther north. The Aztec priests, 
who were better educated than the rest of the people, knew 
how to draw and they wrote stories of their kings and heroes 
and of the battles they won, in queer, rough drawings 
which look very odd, but which meant as much to them as 
our writing does to us. 

Most of the people in Mexico, nowadays, are Indians, 
but there are some from other nations, too, and of course a 
good many are Spaniards, although long ago Mexico broke 
away from Spanish rule and became a republic. The boys 
in the picture are probably partly Indian and partly Spanish. 

There are some curious gardens in Mexico, called "float- 
ing gardens," because they really do float on the water of the 
two lakes near the City of Mexico. They are made by pla- 
cing layers of turf on the thickly matted water growth and 
then anchoring them with long poles. 

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A Native School at Sa/ti/lo, Mexico 

From Stereograph, copyright, 190S, by Underwood i^ Underwood, New York 



A DISTRICT SCHOOL IN NEW 
ENGLAND 

1 DON'T believe there is any kind of school where the 
children have happier times than in the village schools 
of New England. Anyhow, men and women who 
went to one when they were boys and girls always like to 
tell of the good times they used to have there. 

The children in New England generally have a happy 
life, outside of school, too, ior they are most ol: them children 
of farmers; and, even if their fathers have very small farms 
and work pretty hard to make enough to live on, still the 
boys and girls enjoy life, for they are not made to work so 
hard as little German or French or Irish children. 

If their homes are on the sea-coast, as some of them are, 
perhaps their fathers are sailors or fishermen, and then they 
have the excitement of watching the boats go out to sea and 
of looking for them to come back again. 

As you can see, the girls in the nearest group are playing 
the good old game of " London Bridge," while the boys, of 
course, are playing ball; for every boy in New England 
plays ball. 

Probably when these boys and girls are older many of 
them will go to the larger towns and cities, to earn a living, 
because the farms do not usually bring in enough money to 
keep them all at home. For this reason you can see, in 
almost any part of New England, away from the large towns, 
farm houses which are empty and deserted. 

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From Stereo^riip/i, copyright by I'tiderwood of I ndcnvood, Neiv York 



SCHOOL-BOYS DRILLING IN 
BELEM, SPAIN 

THESE boys are Spanish, too, but they and their school 
look rather different from the last. That is because 
this school is a Government school, while the other is 
one that is supported by charity. These boys look very trim 
in their quaint uniform, and they are as earnest in their drill- 
ing as if they were little soldiers, which some of them will 
be, perhaps, some day. 

It is odd to see any building and courtyard in Spain so 
bare of flowers and trees as this one, because the Spaniards 
are very fond of gardens and almost all their houses have 
some sort of flowers in the open court. But doubtless this 
is bare so that the boys can have more space to drill in. The 
most beautiful gardens of Spain are those belonging to the 
Generalife, a wonderful palace high on the mountain side 
above the Alhambra. 

But better than almost anything else the Spaniards love 
an exciting bull fight. It is a cruel sport, sometimes killing 
the men who are in it, often killing their horses, and always 
trapping and killing the bull; but the Spanish men will 
gather in great crowds to watch it. And even the Spanish 
ladies take great delight in looking on at the horrible butch- 
ering of the splendid animals. If it were not for the cruelty 
to all animals that are used in it, a bull fight would be a very 
beautiful sight, for everyone goes in his most brilliant clothes. 
But all that does not help the suffering animals. 

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Drilling iti the School-yard at Bclcni, Spain 

From Stereograph, copyright, 1909, by Undenvood Isf Undenvood, S'eiv York 



AMERICAN INDIANS, MOKI 
COUNTRY 

OF course, you know the old story of Columbus calling 
the people he found in America, Indians, because 
he thought the islands he landed on were close to 
India? Well, they have always been called that, since then, 
though nowadays they are very different, in most ways, from 
the wild, savage people that Columbus saw. 

When the first English settlers made their homes in 
America, they had pretty hard times fighting with — or try- 
ing to make friends of — the Indians. But little by little the 
white people became more numerous and more powerful, 
until now the Indians have been compelled for some time to 
live on reservations, or plots of land in a few of the Western 
and Southern States, set aside for them by the Government. 
This is one of those reservations, and this tribe of Indians are 
called Mokis. 

These Indians are taught by the white people to read 
and write and speak English. They encourage them, also, 
to do the things that their people have always done so well, 
that is, basket weaving and pottery making. And some of 
these perhaps, will go from here to one of the splendid 
schools for Indians at Hampton, Virginia, or Carlisle, Penn- 
sylvania. When they have studied there, a few of them will 
go back to their own tribe and teach them and help them to 
become civilized. The Indians have had a pretty hard life 
of it, however, since white men came to America. 

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FILANTROPICA, ECUADOR 

THIS looks like a fine place to play in, doesn't it ? 
Well, the Spaniards are as fond of playing as the 
Japanese, and they always build their houses with an 
open court, like this, in the middle of them, so that they can 
sit out of doors and their children can play without going 
out into the public streets. 

Now, this is not in Spain, but in Ecuador, South 
America, which used to belong to Spain, and has a great 
many people of Spanish blood living in it, now. So they 
build their houses as nearly as they can like those in Spain — 
even their schoolhouses. 

The name Ecuador is the Spanish name for equator. 
Can you not guess how the country got that name ? Look 
on your map of South America, and you will see the line of 
the equator passing right through Ecuador. Then you will 
understand that it must be a very hot country. And so it 
is, except on the slopes of the mountains, which are very, 
very high. Many of these are volcanoes, and one, Cotopaxi, 
is the highest volcano in the world. If you should go to 
Quito, the capital of Ecuador, you could see as many as 
eleven snow-capped volcanoes all at once. That doesn't 
mean, however, that they are all near by, for they are so high 
that you can see them many miles away. But the scenery is 
not the only fine thing in Ecuador, for several of its cities are 
large and beautiful. 

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Scbool-cbildrcn in the Coin-t of La Socicdad, Filantropica, Ecuador 

From Stereograph, copyright, 1907, hy Vndenvood of Undencood, Neiv York 



THE JESUIT SCHOOL OF SALEMI, 

SICILY 

HOW would you like to go to school in a palace? 
That is what these children do, though they don't 
look very much like princesses or the sort of people 
who generally live in palaces. They are little Sicilians, 
which means that they live on the beautiful island of Sicily, 
so close to Italy that some of these children are Italians; and 
they all speak a language that is a sort of Italian — a very bad 
sort, the people who live in Rome will tell you. 

Once upon a time, hundreds of years ago, some people 
called Normans — of the same race that went to England and 
conquered the Saxons there — landed on the island of Sicily 
and took possession of a large part of it. This old palace is 
one that these Normans built, so you may know it is very 
old. But when it was deserted, and no one cared to use it 
as a palace any longer, the Jesuits took it for a school. 

Perhaps you are wondering who the Jesuits are.? Well, 
they are priests of the Roman Catholic Church — belonging 
to a society called the Society of Jesus — and their special 
work is to teach. After they have spent a certain number 
of years in studying and preparation, they go about, preach- 
ing and teaching and, as here, taking care of some school. 
Some of these boys will probably become Jesuit priests when 
they grow up, and may be sent half way round the world 
by their order. These priests have done much in exploring 
and civilizing new lands, the world over. 

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The yesiiit School of Salcmi, Sicily 

From Suret>zmp/t, copyright, 1905, by Undenvood l3' Vnderwood, Kau York 



THE ROYAL TECHNICAL 
SCHOOL, PALERMO, SICILY 

THIS is another school in Sicily, but this one is only for 
boys and they have to study very hard indeed, to 
learn to be mechanics or engineers of various kinds. 

Although Sicily is a very beautiful island — perhaps the 
most beautiful in the world — it is not altogether a safe place 
to live in, because the great volcano, Etna, is there, and no 
one can tell when it will pour out its fire and burning lava, 
and destroy the towns round about. 

Still, people do live there, and very near Etna. Indeed, 
the people who live nearest to that great smoking mountain 
seem to love it, even while they fear its terrible power. 
They have many wonderful stories about Etna, and they say 
of it, "Etna is a king, and the mountains round about kneel 
before him, and do not dare to lift their eyes to his face." 
The peasants call it also Mongibello, which means the beau- 
tiful mountain; for they think it the greatest mountain in 
the world. At any rate, to drive around it would take you 
three whole days, and even to ride up to the top and down 
again would take the same time. There are sixty-three 
towns on its sides, and fourteen great forests. 

In one part of Sicily, but on the other side of the island 
from where these boys live, there was a terrible earthquake, 
not very long ago, and Messina, one of Sicily's most beautiful 
towns, was entirely destroyed, while thousands of people were 
killed and more made homeless. 

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Teacher and Pupils of the Royal Technical School, Palermo, Sicily 

From Stereosraph, copyright, 1909, by Undenvood i5" Underwood, New York 



JAMAICA PICKANINNIES GOING 
TO SCHOOL 

JAMAICA is still another of the West India Islands but, 
unlike Cuba and Porto Rico, it is a possession of 
England and so belongs to the British West Indies. 
For many, many years the Spaniards owned Jamaica, because 
Columbus had found it and taken it for Spain. But later 
the English conquered the Spanish and drove them out. 

In the meantime, however, the Spaniards had been rais- 
ing cotton and sugar-cane and coffee, on great plantations 
and, to grow these, they were compelled — or thought they 
were — to get negro slaves from Africa. That is why you 
see all these little pickaninnies in the road; for the people 
who lived in Jamaica when the Spaniards first went there 
were not negroes but much like American Indians. 

These children are not slaves, though, nor are their 
fathers and mothers, because the English set all the negroes 
free a long while ago. Many of their fathers and mothers 
do work on the plantations. But some have little cabins 
and a few fields of their own and of course they work on 
these. These boys probably help, too, out of school hours. 

The schools in Jamaica are not very fine. There are a 
good many of them, but there are very few schoolhouses. 
School is generally held in some church building and man- 
aged by the minister. 

Jamaica is a great health resort and many people go to 
it every winter, attracted by its beautiful climate and flowers. 

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Jd//iaica Pickaninnies on their icay to School 

From Sh-reograph, copyright by Undenimd ^ Uiidi-nvood, Neiv York 



MUNICIPAL SCHOOL AT MANILA 

THE Philippine Islands, also, once belonged to Spain. 
You will think, no doubt, that Spain hasn't much 
left of all the land she used to own as colonies and 
indeed she is not nearly so great a power as she once was. 

While the United States were at war with Spain, trying 
to help Cuba to become free, a United States admiral, Dewey, 
fought a battle in Manila Bay and took the islands away 
from Spain. So, now, the Filipinos are American citizens, 
though they are even farther away across the Pacific Ocean 
from the United States than the Hawaiians are. 

Since the Philippine Islands became part of the United 
States, they have an American governor and there are a great 
many American schools there, so that the children of "the 
little brown people" are learning many things that their 
fathers and mothers never dreamed of knowing. 

They are called the "little brown people" because, even 
when they are grown men and women, they are very short 
and you know already why they are brown — because they 
belong to the races that live on the islands in the Pacific 
Ocean. 

Manila, where this school is, is really very much like 
other cities, because it has been for so long a busy and im- 
portant port. There are still a great many Spaniards living 
in the city, and one thing that they particularly like to do 
is to go to cock-fights. These they have, perhaps, in place 
of the bull-fights, which most Spanish people enjoy so greatly. 

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Pupils and Teachers of a Municipal School, Manila, Philippine Islands 

From Stereograph, copyright hy Undenvood is' Underwood, Neiv York 



SCHOOL-CHILDREN AT LAM- 
POUL, FRANCE 

OF course, there are many different kinds of French 
children,] ust as there are many kinds of English or of 
American children. These boys and girls are French 
peasants, that is, their fathers are poor and have to work very, 
very hard for a living. Some of these w^omen w^ith their 
odd-looking white caps — like night-caps — may be the teach- 
ers, but more likely they are all mothers of some of these 
little urchins. 

France is a bright, sunny country, and the children are a 
happy-hearted lot, though the peasants have about as hard a 
life as the poorer people in Ireland. They all love their 
country, however, and no matter how hard a time they are 
having, they seldom leave it for any other. 

Paris, the capital of France, is one of the very beautiful 
cities of the world, with its many wonderful buildings and 
parks and gardens, its " pinnacles and spires and gorgeously 
gilded domes," its great palaces, the Louvre, the Tuilleries, 
and the Luxembourg, where the French kings and queens 
used to dwell, in the times when France had kings. Now, 
you know, it is a republic and has a President, like the United 
States. These palaces are chiefly museums now, but are 
among the most famous museums in the world. In them are 
not only many beautiful pictures but also jewels, rare pieces 
of china and bronze and wonderful tapestries, many of them 
captured in the wars that France has had with other nations. 

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CHILDREN OF THE AVE MARIA 
CHARITY SCHOOL 

WE'VE been hearing a good deal about other countries 
that belong, or once did belong, to Spain. Now 
here is a school in Spain itself, and more than 
that, in Granada, one of the most famous and beautiful of 
Spanish cities, and at one time, long ago, a very powerful 
and splendid one. 

Yet the schools there are few and very poor, and many 
of the boys and girls do not go to school at all. 

Some have said that the name of Granada meant "pome- 
granate," because so many pomegranate trees grow there. 
But it more probably means "the hill of strangers," for the 
city is built partly on level ground and partly on two hills. 

On one of these hills, when the city was in its glory, was 
a strong fortress, called the Alcazaba, and on the other was 
the wonderful Alhambra, a royal palace and castle, with great 
gilded halls and beautiful courts, gardens and fountains, about 
which so many stories and songs have been written. 

This palace was the dwelling of the Moorish kings when 
Granada was in the possession of the Moors and, later, the 
Christian kings lived there for a while. But now it is deserted 
and much of it is in ruins. Yet it is so beautiful still, that 
no one who goes to Spain would want to miss seeing it. 

The true Spaniards are a very proud race and look back 
on the days of their power with silent regret but they are very 
courteous people and exceedingly hospitable. 

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Boys and Girls of the Ave Maria Charity School, Granada, Spain 

From Stereograph , copyright by Vndenvood bf Undenvood, Neiv York 



A HIGH SCHOOL, JON KOPING, 
SWEDEN 

IT is a long jump from Sicily to Sweden, as you will find 
if you will look on your map ot Europe. Sicily is away 
down in the south and Sweden is almost as far north as 
you can go, in Europe. And I think you will see, from this 
picture, that there is just as great a difference between the 
people of those two countries. The Sicilians are rather small, 
dark-haired, olive-skinned and dark-eyed. They are slow 
and easy-going, but hot-tempered, too; while the Swedes are 
tall and large and very fair, and are a brisk, energetic race. 
Perhaps one has to be energetic, living in so cold a country 
as Sweden and in Sicily, where it is so warm most of the time, 
one cannot well be very active. 

The Swedish children have fine schools and a great many 
of them, so there is no excuse for their staying at home. 
Besides, the schools are all free, from those for very little folk 
up to the great universities, so that every one in Sweden 
ought to be well educated. 

The country next to Sweden is Norway; and you used 
always to speak or read of them as Sweden and Norway — 
always both together as if they were just one country. Well, 
they were almost the same as one country, until a few years 
ago. Then the people of Norway, who had never liked very 
well to be ruled by the Swedish King, broke away and 
appointed a king of their own. But they did it all very 
peacefully, not at all as Sicilians would have done, 

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-:/ High-school at Jon Kopiiig, S-ice^/en 

Frofri Sureogmp/i, copyright by Vndenvood y Vndcnvood, Ktiv York 



AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL: A 
LESSON IN PENMANSHIP 

IN most parts of America the public schools are rather 
different from those in England, because the boys 
and girls that go to them are not those from poor 
families only — at least, outside ot the large cities. 

In the early days of New England, when the English 
colonists began to make their homes there, the first thing they 
did, after putting up their rude little log cabins, was to build 
some kind of a church; then the very next building to go 
up was the school house, for the Puritans were determined 
that their children should not grow up without an education, 
even if they were far away from civilized lands. 

All that was many, many years ago, but nowadays there 
is scarcely the smallest, poorest country district that has not 
some sort of a school. In the mountains of Tennessee they can 
only have school during the spring and summer, because the 
weather is so bad, during the winter, that the pupils can't get 
to the school house and there you will find great boys, almost 
grown, learning to read and write, in the same class with the 
very small children. This school, however, is evidently a 
model one, and is probably in some large town or city. 

American children, either in the city or the country, have 
a much happier time of it than the children ot most other 
countries; for, except when their parents are very poor and 
have to live in the crowded tenements of a big city, they are 
better cared for and are more free to play as they please. 

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A Lesson />/ Pcn/iuu!ship, typical American Public School 
From Stereograph, copyright 190S, by Underwood isf Underwood, New York 



LONDON DAY SCHOOL-A CHEM- 
ISTRY CLASS 

HERE is another school in London, but these boys are 
a bit older than those in the playground, and they are 
very attentive, just now, to the experiment which 
their teacher is performing for them. Perhaps some of them 
hope to become scientists, some day, or perhaps only druggists, 
but druggists, of course, have need of a thorough knowledge 
of chemistry. At any rate, they are all boys of poor families, 
and will have to work hard to earn a living when they grow up. 

The great river Thames, on either side of which the city 
is built, flows directly from London to the sea, and thus makes 
it almost as much of a port as if it were on the seacoast. If 
you should stand on Westminster Bridge, which is the largest 
and the oldest but one crossing the river, at any time of the 
day, you would see the great barges plying back and forth, 
carrying all sorts of freight into and out of the city. 

Of course, as London is the chief city of England, the 
king and queen live there during a part of the year, in Buck- 
ingham Palace. 

There are so many famous buildings in London that I 
could not begin to tell you of them — Westminster Abbey, 
where the tombs of all the kings and queens and of many 
famous men of England are; the Tower of London, where so 
many royal prisoners have been cruelly kept, but which is not 
now used as a prison; the House of Parliament; the British 
Museum; and ever so many others. 

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THE PLAYGROUND 

CAN'T you fairly hear the noise these children are 
making? They are evidently having a good time 
during their play-hour. This is probably the happiest 
hour of the day for most of them; for the London day schools 
are wholly for the children of the poorer people, children who 
play in the streets or not at all, except when they can romp 
here in the school playground. 

Many of these day schools were founded by the churches, 
and are still kept up by them. One of the most famous is 
called Christ's Hospital. This is for boys only, and it is 
commonly known as the Blue Coat School, because all the 
boys wear long, dark-blue coats tightly buttoned across their 
chests, like priests' frocks and flapping about their ankles as 
they walk or run. These queer coats have been the uniform 
of that school for hundreds of years. 

London is a great big city, as you well know — one of the 
largest in the world — but it is not laid out so carefully or on 
such straight lines as Paris. It has grown, first one way and 
then another, for so many, many years, that now its streets 
are confused and winding. Many of its beautiful buildings 
are crowded so closely that you cannot see them as they 
should be seen at all. Yet there is hardly anyone who really 
knows London, who does not love it better than any other 
city. London has many fine parks where people can wander 
as they will and where there are no signs " Keep off the grass." 

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IN EGYPT 

THIS school belongs to an American Mission in Egypt, in 
an old town beside the Nile, one of the largest rivers 
in the world. In most school-rooms I doubt if you 
would find the pupils studying so diligently, when a strange 
photographer comes to take their picture. 

It is a queer-looking school-room, isn't it ? — on the roof 
of a house, right in the dazzling sunlight. You would think 
the boys' eyes would ache. And, indeed, the sun is so very 
bright in Egypt, and the light on the desert sands and on the 
white buildings in the towns is so glaring that a great many 
boys and girls are made blind by it. 

It would seem strange, too, wouldn't it, to have such 
small boys as those in front studying in the same room with 
big grown men ? But there are so lew schools in Egypt that 
men and boys have to go to the same school, or else they 
could not learn at all. 

The school is divided into classes, each class forming a 
circle, and instead of having chairs and desks, the pupils sit 
cross-legged on the floor, because that is the way they 
always sit at home. Their teachers are Egyptian men who 
have learned English in this same school, and are now help- 
ing to teach these boys and men, who are all so eager to 
learn to read and write and speak English. They teach 
them arithmetic and a little geography too, and something 
about our Bible, so that they may become Christians. 




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